Leading electronics manufacturer Samsung announced that none of its employees were injured in a Russian missile attack that landed near its R&D office in Kiev, Ukraine.

The near miss was reported on Facebook (opens in new tab) by Andrii Skira, director of Samsung Ukraine's consumer electronics division. 'The 101 Tower Biz Center was damaged this morning after Russian terrorists planted a bomb in the city of Kiev (where Samsung Electronics Ukraine and Samsung R&D offices are located). All Samsung employees were out of the office." We are safe!"

Samsung confirmed the damage to the building in a statement sent to PC Gamer.

"We can confirm that no Samsung Ukraine employees were injured," a Samsung spokesperson said. 'The impact of the nearby explosion damaged some of the windows in our offices. We remain committed to ensuring the safety of our employees and will continue to monitor the situation closely."

Several people shared images and video clips of the damaged building on Twitter: [As reported by Sam Mobile (opens in new tab), Samsung was one of many companies that reduced or ceased operations in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and in March In March, Samsung announced that it had stopped selling mobile phones, chips, and other products in Russia. The withdrawal from the cell phone market alone was a major blow: according to a 2021 Statisa (open in new tab) report, Samsung accounted for more than one-third of all smartphone sales in the third quarter of that year, but a more recent Statcounter (open in new tab) report shows that as of September 2022, the company's market share had dropped to 22%.

Samsung is also a big player in the PC enthusiast market: it led the development of GAA technology (open in new tab), manufactures very good SSDs (open in new tab), and has a 55-inch curved gaming monitor (open in new tab). Figuratively speaking, of course.

Russia launched missile attacks against civilian targets in Ukraine on October 10, two days after an explosion damaged the Kerch Bridge, built by Russia in 2018 after its invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014. The official cause of the explosion has yet to be determined, but Russian President Vladimir Putin described it as a "terrorist" attack and promised that further such attacks would result in more "severe retaliation (open in new tab)."